The origins of Joanna Chamberlain, his wife, are very well laid out
in a presentation in TAG 72:285-300, 1997, by Jane Fletcher Fiske, in a
very interesting network of the Scudder family. See the
Scudder Page at this site. This kinship network ties together Betts,
King, Lathrop, Very and Scudder immigrant families.

Spouse: Joanna Chamberlain (See
TAG 72:285-300), who migrated to America with her mother, Elizabeth (Stoughton)
Chamberlain, brother Samuel Chamberlain, and half-siblings, which include
John Scudder of Barnstable, Mass and Elizabeth (Scudder) Lathrop. She was
born October, 1630 in Strood, Kent, England.

They probably married very shortly after his arrival in the colonies,
abt 1648-1650.

Residences: Ipswich 1648 > Newtown,
Long Island by 1654-56.

New England Dictionary of New England Settlers
- Savage

"BETTS, RICHARD, Ipswich 1648, said
to have come from Hemel Hempstead, Co. Herts, rem. to Newtown, L. I. 1656,
there was in high esteem many yrs. and a. 18 Nov. 1713, at the age of 100,
to render wh. great number of yrs. doubtful, the stupidity of tradit. adds,
that he dug his own gr. By w. Joanna, Riker says, he had Richard; Thomas;
Joanna, wh. m. John Scudder; Mary, wh. m. Joseph Swazey; Martha, wh. m.
Philip Ketchum; Eliz. wh. was first w. of Joseph Sackett; and Sarah,
wh. m. Edward Hunt."

Register of the Early Settlers of Kings County,
Long Island New York - Page 36

"BETTS,
RICHARD, an early settler of Newtown, who emigrated in 1648, m.
Joanna (???), settling at first in New England, and in 1675 claimed a tract
in N. L. by virtue of an Indian deed of 1663, which claim was disputed.
He finally, probably under this claim, obtained a plantation on the boundary-line
between Kings and Queens counties, on the main road from Brn to Ja, afterwards
owned by John I. Snediker and the dwelling-house converted into a tavern
or hotel, famous in its day for the entertainment of sleighing parties
and travellers. From 1656 to 1674 he was most of the time a mag. of Middleburgh
or Newtown--in 1673 holding his appointment from Gov. Colve--and in 1679
high sheriff of Yorkshire. Issue:--Richard; Thomas, m. Mary da. of Danl
Whitehead; Joanna; Mary; Martha; Elizabeth; and Sara. Signed his name "Richard
Betts.""

The History of the town of Flatbush, in Kings
County, Long Island

"So much of the land thus acquired as the inhabitants of Flatbush
had occasion for, they took up, enclosed, and improved. The rest was left
in common, until by the increase of their population it should be needed.
They remained thus in quiet possession of all their lands until the year
1675, when Captain Richard Betts laid claim
to a certain parcel or tract, lying in the New Lots, for which he said
he had obtained a deed from the Indians, of prior date to the one just
recited, given in the year 1663. We are not able to locate precisely the
premises thus called in question. The matter was tried at the court of
Sessions, held in Gravesend, for that year, when the deed of Mr.
Betts was allowed, and a verdict given in his favor. But an appeal
was taken by the inhabitants of the town, to the General Court of Assizes,
which was holden in the same year, 1675, in the city of New-York. Hereupon
a full and fair hearing of the case, the verdict rendered at the court
of Sessions was set aside, and the court ordered, as follows:--"That the
land shall lye in common to fflatbush, and the townes adjacent, as it heretofore
hath been, and that the towns who have the beneffit of the comonage shall
pay their equall proportion of the purchase money to the Indyans and costs
of this suite."

It was probably
in consequence of this suit, that the inhabitants of Flatbush sought and
obtained a separate patent for that part of the town called New-Lots. This
was granted by Gov. Edmond Andros on the 25th day of March, in the year
1677, to Arian Lamberse and others, to the number of thirty-seven persons.
This Patent we have not been able to procure. It was probably granted on
condition of the payment of a certain quit rent to the Governor, which
opinion is confirmed from the fact, that complaint was subsequently made
to the court of Sessions, held at Gravesend, against the constable of New
Lots, for not taking up and paying over the same, upon which diverse orders
were passed by the court relating thereto. About the time of the settlement
of New Lots, several of the inhabitants of Midwout, or Flatbush, also removed
to New-Jersey, and formed settlements on the Raritan and Milstone rivers,
and also in the county of Monmouth, then called Neversink. Their numerous
descendents now occupy these and other different parts of New-Jersey."

The will of Richard Betts

New York Wills Pp 113-4

Page 242.--RICHARD BETTS. In the name of God, Amen. I, Richard
Betts, of Newtown, in Queens County, on Nassau Island, yeoman, being
in good health. I leave to my wife Johanah,
all my homestead and buildings and lot of land belonging to the same, lying
between the lands of John Scudder and Richard Betts,
son of Thomas Betts, deceased; Also my tract of land between the
way that leads to the narrow passage and the land of Samuel Albertus, and
the meadow adjoining to the same; Also all my movable estate, and liberty
to get what hay she may have occasion for during her life. After the decease
of my wife I leave to my son, Richard Betts,
my Camlet cloak, for his birthright, and all my right and interest in lands
in Plunder neck; Also my house and home lot and buildings; Also 1/2 of
the lands and meadows that lyeth below the road, that leads from the English
Kill to the Dutch Kills, bounded by Samuel Albertus and John Allen, with
all the appurtenances; Also 1/2 the meadow land above the homestead, situate
between the lands of John Scudder and Richard Betts, sons of Thomas Betts,
deceased. I leave to my grand son, Richard Betts,
son of Thomas Betts, my tract of land lying between the way that
leads to the narrow passage and the land of Samuel Albertus, up to Newtown
spring; Also 1/2 the meadow and upland, that lyeth between the road that
leads from the English Kills to the Dutch Kills, bounded by Samuel Albertus
and John Allen. All movable estate after my wife's death to my
daughters, Johanah Sander, Mary Swazy, and Martha Ketcham, and the
children
of my daughter, Elizabeth Sackett, deceased, and the children of my daughter,
Sarah Hunt, deceased. I appoint
my sons in
law, Joseph Sackett and Phillip Ketcham, executors.

I have the following so far for the children and grandchildren of
the immigrant Richard Betts and his wife, Joanna Chamberlain. It is probably
not complete. Surnames of the first generation branches are: Betts,
Scudder, Hunt, Swezey, Ketchum, Sackett.